Managing Thumbnails

It is possible to paste thumbnails from one clip onto many other clips. This can be useful if you have clips contained within CatDV that may not have a useful thumbnail associated with it e.g a sound file.

Select the clip that will be used for the thumbnail and select Copy from the Edit Menu.

Select the clip or multiple clips you would like to associate with the new thumbnail. In the Edit menu select Paste Thumbnails.

This will then store a new thumbnail for each of the clips selected

Building and Deleting Thumbnails

Thumbnails by default are set to be created on ingest this can be configured in the Preferences menu Proxies and Thumbnails.

The  Automatic setting will create 1 thumbnail for each clip at the start of the clip on ingest.

It is possible to create additional thumbnails or modify thumbnails after clips have been ingested using the Build Thumbnails command from the Media menu.

Here you can select the frequency of the thumbnails from 1 clip to 2 created every second if required.

You can also change the size of the thumbnails from 64 x 48 to a maximum of 512 x 384.

Thumbnails are stored within the CatDV database so it is encouraged to keep the thumbnails small to medium in order to keep the database efficient.

Other options include the ability to delete the existing thumbnails, create a thumbnail from the mid point of a clip or the frame before the end of the clip.

There is also an option to view the created thumbnails after creation. We recommend to always select delete the existing thumbnails when creating new thumbnails.

Select the clips you would like to change the thumbnail properties, select Build Thumbnails from the Media menu and configure the options for the new thumbnails.

Press OK and CatDV will generate the new thumbnails

We recommend to always select delete the existing thumbnails when creating new thumbnails.